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This page highlights the astonishing amount of scientific discovery happening at Columbia, one of the world’s leading research universities. 

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Teaming Up to Transform Pediatric Brain Cancer Treatment

An engineer and a physician are working together on a new approach using focused ultrasound to treat dozens of brain diseases.

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Alexis Abramson says the Climate School is in a unique position to tackle the climate crisis.

The discovery could disrupt technologies like robotics, medicine, and space travel.

Doctoral candidate Anna Vannucci’s new research uses AI to predict kids’ mental health outcomes.

Education, nutrition and sanitation have likely played a key role in the improvements.

Smiling robots, nanoplastics, electric fish, and an archaeological dig in Peru were some of the biggest news stories of the year.

Columbia and NASA signed a “collaborative Space Act Agreement” to jointly advance research and education opportunities.

Future treatments for hearing loss could rely on a tiny 3D-printed microneedle designed by Columbia physicians and engineers.

Ioannis (John) Kymissis, W. Ian Lipkin, and Konstantin Petrukhin will be officially inducted as fellows at a ceremony in June.

New findings from a Columbia researcher suggest that ovarian aging has lessons for us all.

Targeting antidepressant medications to cells in the gut could cause fewer side effects than current treatments.

Ruben Gonzalez records movies to discover how biomolecules’ motions determine their functions. He has a major new finding.

Psychotherapy has risen among younger adults, women, college-educated individuals, and those with higher family incomes.